"Eighth Day" | ||||
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Single by Hazel O'Connor | ||||
from the album Breaking Glass | ||||
B-side | "Monsters in Disguise" | |||
Released | August 1980 | |||
Recorded | 1980 | |||
Studio | Good Earth Studios, London | |||
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Length | 3:11 | |||
Label | A&M | |||
Songwriter(s) | Hazel O'Connor | |||
Producer(s) | Tony Visconti | |||
Hazel O'Connor singles chronology | ||||
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Audio | ||||
"Eighth Day" on YouTube |
"Eighth Day" is a song by British singer-songwriter Hazel O'Connor, released in August 1980 as the second single from her debut and soundtrack album, Breaking Glass. It reached no. 5 on the UK Singles Charts, making it her first top-ten hit and her highest chart placing to date.[1] The song was also certified silver in the UK by the BPI.[2]
O'Connor wrote the song twelve hours before it was recorded as a parallel story of the Book of Genesis where Man made the Earth in his own image, and "having unleashed elements he cannot control, the Man-made Machine Monster takes over".[3]
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